Connecticut western news., 1887-10-26
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.

DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 rom Many Redundant Columns.
 Mrs. John Hoons, of Michigan City, Ind, tied her three year old daughter to herself and jumped into the harbor. Their bodies were recovered.
 Simon Bergeman, of 42 Forsyth street, was arraigned before Justice Patterson in the Essex Market Police CoIrt for selling adulter- ated milk. He was held in S400 bail. The milk he sold was twenty-four per cent adulter- street, and J: Rosvoh1t, of No. 1O4 Grand street were held in $l0O each.
 Mrs. James A. Garfield and her daughter, Miss Mollie, who were passengers on the steamer Arizona, from New York, have arrived in Livexpool.
 Ludwig Woernocksi, aged nineteen, 6 waiter, and Henry Scheilt1, aged twenty-f butcher, were arraigned in Essex Market Police Court. N. Y., on complaint of Max Refs, the cook of the Star Home, No. IA Greenwich street, where all three are employed. Refs said that his trunk had been opened and quantity of stuff, in all amounting to $S0, had Patterson committed them, in default of Sl, 800 bail each, to appear for trial in General Sessions.
 pr. Smith, of the Health Board, N. T., says that everything is all right on the steamship Britannia, and there is no fear of cholera.
 -Elmer B. Miles, the Brooklyn real estate agent who disappeared on Friday, returned to his home, 80 Preaident street, late on Sunday night. He was daZed and partially uncon- scious, and told his family that he had been to Greenwood and Evergreen Cemeteries looking | T. 1-1 physician summoned. The doctor pronounced MT. Niles crazy.
 Mayor OBrien's application for member ship of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechan- ics Association was rejected at the quarterly meeting of the Association on Wednesday evening.
 A portly, handsome looking German deliber- ately threw himself across the Reading Rail- road tracks at Walnut street in front of an ap- preaching freight train. A bystander endea- vored to pull him away, but could not He was crushed to death. His name is Albert Stabler, well-known journeyman tailor.
 James A. Hanley, who used horseshoe for a whip, wcs fined s1O in the Jefferson Market Police Court, N. r., for cruelty to ani- mals,
 Fred Sturtevant of Lynn, Mass, convicted of horse stealing, was the first case to come under the new confirmed criminal law passed by the last Legislature. Sturtevant has served
  and the law provides that any criminal con victed of State Prison offense, who has served two terms of over three years each, must be sentenced to B years. Sturtevant was ac- cordingly given that term by Judge Sherman. . Owen Rafferty, the young man who was arrested for practising with parlor rifle upon the tenement house panes of glass in Thirty second street, near Eleventh avenue, N. T., was fined S10 in Jefferson Market Court.
 The tax rate in Brooklyn in 1886 was $3656 on $1, ,0OO. According to the report made public by Clerk Cadley, of the Board of Supervisors, the rate this year will be increased to S27.59. This increase of over S1 on every $1 900 of valuation IS caused by tho unusually large appropriations made during the present year for the maintenance of the municipal de pertinent.
 -J. Capefo. painter aged 35, of No. 325 Adams street, Brooklyn, while working on a scaffold at No. 47 Attorney street, accidentally fell from the third story to the sidewalk and received injuries that will probably cause his death.
 While Theodore Shuler, Charles O'Neill, and James Dalton were at work on & sand bank on Pier street, Yonkers, the bank suddenly caved in, and Shuler was buried and killed. children, living on Riyerdale avenue. O'Neill escaped with some serious injuries and was sent to St. Johns Riverside Hospital. Dalton, who WAS the contractor doing the work, was iniured on the right hip and shoulder.
 Policeman Walsh was brought before Commissioner Voorhees, in N. Y. to answor the charge of savagely clubbing little Patrick Kenealy in Pell street some days ago. The hearing was postponed for the attendance of . full board. 1t looks bad for Walsh.
 Andrew Maloney was run over by horse car in New York. His leg had to be atnputa- ted and he was otherwise injured. James Denton, the driver of the car was arrested.
 Joseph Gunski, IA years of age, in the employ of Julius Wodiska, 49 Maiden Lane, was sent to buy a bottle of yitriol. As he was returning he slipped on piece of tin and broke the bottle. The yitriol ran out over his arms and legs, eating holes into his coat, trous- CTS and shoes, and severely burning his arms and leSs. He was taken to the Chambers Street Hospital.
 The international Military Encampment at Chicago, is now closed. The proceedings of the encampment were successful, but a very serious financial deficit, amounting to about S500 900, has to be met.
 The body of a woman was found floating in the Hudson rser at Cornwall, N. '. Arti- cles apparently from a canal boat were also found near by, and it is supposed that 8 canal beat was sunk in the neighborhood. The dead woman had on no hat shoes. The body had been in the water about six hours. No marks of violence were found on it. Air get Gng in the clothing kept the body from sink ing
 After stubborn fight at Chicago the Western States Passenger Association have agreed to sell 20OO mile tickets at $40, or twr cents per mile. The rate for 100) mile tick e:s will however, continue at S24, or two and half cents per mile.
 Police Captain McKelvey of Myrtle ave nue (Brookly, N. Y.) Station, raided a gam bling hou e at 1S4 Navy street, and found ter men playing poker. Justice Kenna held then Tor examination. All gave fictitious names except Moses Morris, the proprietor who was held on tho charge of keeping gambling house.
 A package exploded in the Adams ExpresI Company's office in Boston, slightly injuring Henry T. Sawyer, watchman. No trace o the package is left and the officers say thes do not know what it contained, where 1t eSnit from, or to whom it was assigned.
 Thomas H. Elliott, the Reporter who's, body was found fin the river at Brooklyn, N r., Is believed to have committed suicide. II, was very much depressed. He formerly had considerable influence as policeman ant tried to induce Justice Khinehardt to emplo, him during the approaching campaign. Tn, jndge could not do 1t, and Elliott proba bl, jumped into the river. He had been separated from his wife for several years.
 By a collision on th, Richmond and Dan vile Railroad, near Gree-s Station, Mrs. M Dowell, of Ashvile, N. O., and Engineer Wal were killed. Isn others were injured.
 A Singular Homicide.
 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1S.-A singular homicid occurred at Slidell, in St. Tammany Parish yesterday. M. Edmonds, hotel keeper 0